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Top 30 Andrei Platonov Quotes (2025 Update)

Andrei Platonov Quote: “Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.”

1. “Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head.”

2. “A man who’s never seen war is like a woman who’s never given birth – soft in the head.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “When you’ve nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.”

3. “When you’ve nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”

4. “Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”

5. “Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.”

6. “Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.”

7. “From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “I have a trend of my own.”

8. “I have a trend of my own.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “If they don’t think, people act senselessly.”

9. “If they don’t think, people act senselessly.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”

10. “Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “We can’t feel anything – all that’s left inside us is dust.”

11. “We can’t feel anything – all that’s left inside us is dust.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?”

12. “Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.”

13. “At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “I lived and languished.”

14. “I lived and languished.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!”

15. “If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking – who will be left to act?”

16. “What if we all suddenly get carried away thinking – who will be left to act?”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.”

17. “I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.”

18. “The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “My body gets weak without truth.”

19. “My body gets weak without truth.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “In place of hope all that remained to him was endurance, and somewhere beyond the long sequence of nights, beyond the orchards that faded, blossomed, and perished once more, beyond all the people he had encountered and who had then passed on into the past, there existed his fated day-when he would have to take to his bed, turn his face to the wall, and pass away without being able to cry.”

20. “In place of hope all that remained to him was endurance, and somewhere beyond the long sequence of nights, beyond the orchards that faded, blossomed, and perished once more, beyond all the people he had encountered and who had then passed on into the past, there existed his fated day-when he would have to take to his bed, turn his face to the wall, and pass away without being able to cry.”

— Andrei Platonov

Andrei Platonov Quote: “The soul doesn’t die,” he said. “She becomes a stranger. She thinks bad is good. She gets bored inside us. She imagines what doesn’t exist and promises what never will exist.”

21. “The soul doesn’t die,” he said. “She becomes a stranger. She thinks bad is good. She gets bored inside us. She imagines what doesn’t exist and promises what never will exist.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals.”

22. “People themselves would grind one another down and tear one another to pieces, and the best would fall dead in the struggle while the worst would turn into animals.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “As before, he did not know whether there really was anything special about existence in general; no one could recite to him from memory a codex of universal laws, and events on the earth’s surface were not charming him.”

23. “As before, he did not know whether there really was anything special about existence in general; no one could recite to him from memory a codex of universal laws, and events on the earth’s surface were not charming him.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.”

24. “What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever under construction yet never constructed, to be like his own destroyed life.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “He walked then with the same heart as those peasants who walk to Kiev after their faith has run dry and their life has turned into simply living it out.”

25. “He walked then with the same heart as those peasants who walk to Kiev after their faith has run dry and their life has turned into simply living it out.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

26. “O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn’t believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger’s heart.”

27. “He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would remember him, and love him. But he didn’t believe they would. From childhood memories he knew how strange and sad it is after a long absence to see a familiar place again, for these unmoving objects have no memory and do not recognize the stirrings of a stranger’s heart.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?”

28. “Inside every poor creature was a sense of some other happy destiny, a destiny that was necessary and inevitable -why, then, did they find their lives such a burden and why were they always waiting for something?”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.”

29. “He alone knew the USSR was populated by many total enemies of socialism, egotists and vipers of the future world, and he secretly consoled himself by the thought that one day soon he would exterminate the whole mass of them, leaving alive only proletarian infants and pure orphans.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He’s waiting for science – he wants to be revived.”

30. “Marxism will be able to do anything. Or why is Lenin lying whole in Moscow? He’s waiting for science – he wants to be revived.”

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Andrei Platonov Quote: “But men live because they’re born, not by truth or by intelligence, and while the heart goes on beating it scatters and spreads their despair and finally destroys itself, losing its substance in patience and in work.”

31. “But men live because they’re born, not by truth or by intelligence, and while the heart goes on beating it scatters and spreads their despair and finally destroys itself, losing its substance in patience and in work.”

— Andrei Platonov

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